Petra Krause (terrorist)

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Petra Krause (born February 19, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German-Italian terrorist who, with her gang , had supplied weapons to the Red Army Faction (RAF) and the Red Brigades , among others, with her gang in the 1970s .

In 1975 she was arrested in Zurich on suspicion of smuggling explosives and weapons for various terrorist groups in half of Europe. She was defended by lawyer Bernard Rambert from the legal advice lawyers' collective and extradited to Italy in 1977, where she was released after a few days. In 1981 she was convicted in absentia by the higher court of the Canton of Zurich .

The proceedings against Krause in Switzerland took place against the backdrop of the German Autumn and also led to controversies about the conditions of detention. The proceedings also fell during the period of left-wing terrorism in Switzerland.

Krause was friends with the German politician and GDR agent Brigitte Heinrich  . In Zurich she worked briefly for bookseller Theo Pinkus .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Documents by and about Krause, Petra in the Dodis database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
  2. ↑ Lucien Scherrer, The Red Beni and the Terrorists , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), April 4, 2015
  3. ↑ Marcel Gyr, The Terrorist Who Accused Switzerland of Torture , in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), September 15, 2017
  4. ↑ Andreas Tobler, A woman fools Switzerland , in: Tages-Anzeiger, September 15, 2017
  5. ↑ Martin Steiger, judgment against terrorist Petra Krause of March 9, 1981 , in: Steiger Legal, May 17, 2018
  6. ↑ Urs Hafner, The Terrorist Who Became a Victim , at: Swiss National Science Foundation, October 23, 2016
  7. ↑ Sabine Bitter, “Schweizer RAF”: Youthful men, unsuccessful bomb attacks , interview with Dominique Grisard, at: Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF), March 28, 2017
  8. ^ "German Autumn" in Switzerland , at: Dodis (Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland)
personal data
SURNAME Krause, Petra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Italian terrorist
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin